Angama (dance)

In Ryukyu Islands superstition, the Angama are peculiar beings who go about the villages dancing and beating gongs at night. The angama wear "grotesquely painted paper masks they have made themselves and are dressed in women's yukata."^[1]

References

^ Ouwehand, Cornelius (1985). Hateruma: socio-religious aspects of a South-Ryukyuan island culture. E.J. Brill. p. 198. ISBN 978-90-04-07710-2. Retrieved 31 March 2012.

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[Ouwehand1985-1] Ouwehand, Cornelius (1985). Hateruma: socio-religious aspects of a South-Ryukyuan island culture. E.J. Brill. p. 198. ISBN 978-90-04-07710-2. Retrieved 31 March 2012.

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